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02.11.02
#1 Britney Spear's "Crossroads". As my friend JoeM said, it'd almost be worth seeing, just so you could give an informed opinion on how much it really sucked. I think it will be one of the worst films of the year.

#2. That new Fox puppet show "Get the Bunny" or whatever it's called. Now, that on the other hand, I believe will go down as one of the worst TV shows of ALL TIME.

01.29.02
The Bastards who painted Sparty. OK, I am not the most spirited person in the world, but who would feel the need to deface another school's mascot/emblem. The obvious answer is U of M, (they did paint it blue and YELLOW (I don't acknowlege maize as a colour). What is this, Animal House?

01.23.02
Surprisingly enough, even though I haven't written anything on the page in about 6 months, and the world has changed dramatically in that time, I really don't have too many gripes. But perhaps, it's just because almost everything on the personal front is going well. (but this is of course the "Sits" page, so here are a few off the top of my head:

#1: Parenting in America is a piece of shit. Either people give their kids too much freedom and don't give their children any direction, or they spend lots of time with their kids and teach them to be intolerant of others and of other people's beliefs.

#2: Targeting young adults, but signal being picked up by kids. Here's what I mean, take the WWF for example. From time to time, I get into wrestling, but I fully understand it's not for kids at all. But guess who loves wrestling? Yep, kids! Now I don't know who is to blame for that one. The creators of the content, or the parents. Probably both.

#3: Radio. I love radio. I want to work in radio. Having said that REMEMBER WHERE YOU HEARD THIS STATEMENT: RADIO, (AS WE KNOW IT TODAY) WILL BE DEAD IN THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS. Here's why:

My generation is all about interactivity and programmability. We want to control what we watch/read/listen to and when we want to see it. Traditional Broadcast Radio (TBR) is and always will be a passive medium.
With the advent of Satellite radio (yes, it looks like it finally will happen and it looks like XM will be the main provider at this point) you will have a wealth of options not offered on TBR. Yeah, true you'll have to pay for it (as of right now), but people once doubted that anyone would pay to watch cable.
The only 2 things that radio has going for it, that no one, meaning (file sharing, satellite radio, cable music channels), no one can offer: Localism, (a sense that the station and people you're listening to are connected with your community, and your station is unique to your station is unique to your community) and Personalities. But TBR is pissing those two things away with consolidation and homogenization. Listen to a Top 40 or Hip Hop station anywhere in American and you'll pretty much get the same thing. The music is the same, because station rely too heavily on consulting and the personalities are the same, because when your station is part of a large corporation, you are less willing to take a chance on anyone doing anything new.
*A quick word about consulting. If you don't know it basically means that a station's Program Director consults someone who tells them what songs have tested well at other stations, and so on. It's not necessarily a bad idea, I mean America itself is gotten pretty homogeneous in the last 20 years. Just about every city in America is being surrounded by an endless sea of strip malls, Best Buys, and Applebee's. So, it reasonable to assume that the music should reflect that. It might mean that people don't want stations to sound all that different from city to city. But guess what, that only makes it easier for satellite radio.
One of the universal truths of my generation will be (with a few notable exceptions) that RADIO SUCKS. We don't listen to the radio, and for the most part, it's not part of our daily routine. The industry lost us.

#4: The state of ROCK music. The term "Alternative" is dead. If a radio station calls themselves "Alternative" they are lying, what the mean is "New Rock", which is fine. The problem is that what the music industry thinks of as new rock is just derivative of bands that have had success in the last five years, your Korns, your Limp Bizkits and your Creeds. Too bad they don't know about Pete Yorn, yet.

#5: US Air. Ok, so I fly down south for the weekend. I come back. Not only did they loose my bag, but there was no one at the US Air ticket office or baggage claim to file a claim for me. So instead, it takes me 2 hours to finally get a hold of someone on the phone. US Air, sucks.

8.20.01
multiple magazine covers. Here's what I'm talking about: Ok, take TV guide, they used to do these multiple covers once in a while, mostly for collectors. Like If you were a big "everybody loves raymond" fan, you could buy 4 separate magazines with different covers. But of course the content was the same. But now they do it all the time. Seriously, I'm surprised when they DON'T have multiple covers. And in the end, it's just a way to take advantage of people who collect this stuff and it makes the feel like "i have to have all 5 covers". It's just stupid.

6.17.01
S.U.V. Limos. If you're gonna get a limo, get a regular limo. SUV limos just seem trashy to me. Isn't the point of getting a limo, well, to get a limo?

2.20.01
Movie previews. I used to hate people who said this, but now i'm one of 'em. Movie previews show too much. Here's what they should show:

Major Stars/Directors
Vague Plot Outline
release date

they should not show:

more than 1 plot twist.
zero footage from after the film's climax (ala "castaway")
no more than 2 of the film's catch phrases or memorable lines (example: "finding forester": "you're the man now, dog!", "it's not a question of weather your writing is good, it's if it's too good" "did you win an award or something-the pulitzer!" "he's a basketball player, from the bronx" "my name is william forester, I'm that one, there" "c'mon professor" "many writers have set out to write the great 20th century novel, William Forrester actually did it, unfortunately this is the only one he chose to write" "BOLT THE DOOR, IF YOU'RE COMING IN"---- 7!, that's right seven major quotes that tell you very much about the sequence of events of that movie all from one preview.

11.16.00
F***in' flash! Ok, the computer I use most of the time at the radio station is slower than a possum in tree (random folks-y saying). Anyway, I hate flash. I LIKE CONTENT. In case you're not sure what I'm talking about, I'm referring to assine intro's that are put at the beginning of web pages, before you get to the actual meat and potatoes of the site. If I want to know about U2's tour plans. I want to type in www.u2.com, then see a list of features, somewhere on that list see the word "tour" and find out. That whole process should never take more than 10 seconds. Actually it's not so much the amount of time, it's the amount of wasted time. I don't want to see some stupid little box with the word "u2" on it get smashed and split into a little diagram of a studio. I don't want to see a bunch of stars fly around and hear some damn song, I don't want to see a bunch of monkeys winking at me and I have to select the right monkey to use the "information" super highway. JUST GIVE ME the INFO. And while I'm on the subject, thank god some people are kind enough to offer a "skip intro" option, but even when they do that they hide it way down on the bottom corner. And the worst, the ABSOLUTE F***ING WORST, is when you can't even get into a site with out flash. So if you have Flash, you have to watch a bunch of stuff you don't care about, or look for some little tiny link to actually get to the site that SHOULD have appeared right when you pressed the "m" in .coM Or If you don't have flash you have to wait for ever just to find out that you can't even see what's on the site. You have my word: YOU WILL NEVER SEE ONE SINGLE SOLITARY BYTE OF FLASH ON www.msu.edu/~addyclay

10.31.00
Women who dress up for Halloween by like wearing an orange sweater, and pumpkin earrings. Nice try. Look for this on secretaries, bus drivers, and anyone else who half asses the night of Evil.

10.18.00
Nader freaks. I used to be for Nader until I realized a few things: First of all, the race is so close, I refuse to risk electing W. just because I'm upset with the current state of major party control. Second of all, (and I don't mean to be one of those "a vote for nader is a vote for bush" people), but seriously, The NEXT PRESIDENT WILL SELECT 3-4 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. My point is why would you vote for Nader in an exercise in principles, when such a fundamental principle such as A WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE is at stake. Gore will put PRO-CHOICE justices on the bench, W. will put PRO-LIFE on the bench, and that would over turn Roe V. Wade. Plain and simple. Next, I'm sick of Nader people gripping about how much it sucks that we've only got a choice between 2 "corporate parties" EXCUSE ME? But I just saw this on CNN:

Republicans top benefactors: Democrats top benefactors:

Philip Morris (old school evil corporation)                                   ASFCME (labor union)
The NRA (satan's fanclub)                                                        Service workers (labor union)
AT & T (the future of evil corparations)                                      Painters union (union)

And you a@@holes are telling me that a party that's got support from a huge multinational corporation is the same as a party that's got grass roots support from normal working class people. COME ON.

And finally, think about this. Al Gore has been in Government for 24 years. How much experience does Ralph have in government? answer = 0. 90% of the President's job is foreign policy (at least the important stuff) and What the hell does a consumer advocate know about that? He's a great guy, and I agree that a third party would be nice, but I'm sorry, I MUST take this election seriously and actually vote on ISSUES not just who is not part of the 'establishment'. RALPH NADER GET A BIG FAT SIT.

10.12.00
Well people said they miss the old "Rants & Raves" section of the ole' site, so here is the sit page. The terms "sit" and "spin" refer to a show I host on impact89fm on sunday nights. The idea of the show is that we play songs, and if we like it- we give it a "spin" if we don't like it- it's a "sit", and the show is called "Sit Or Spin" (despite the insistence of all my friends who don't really listen to it, and call it "Sit AND Spin". So here we go:

sit #1:
people who bitch about you not updating your web page, when they haven't touched their web page in a year. A web page is a big responsibility. If you're going to throw some crap out into cyber space, make sure it's crap that will stay relevant. And i refuse to do a page, that I don't at least tweak every couple of months. but ya gotta give 'em what they want.